Katharine B. Dubois
| Title: | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | 111 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | 684-2307 |
| Email Address: | katharine.dubois@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Fall 2007, Wednesday 2:30-4:30pm, and by appointment
Education
- PhD University of Michigan, 2001
- BA Duke University, 1989
Research Interests
My research interests include religious belief and practice in late-medieval Latin Christendom, especially penance, pilgrimage, penitential devotion, saints' cults, and relics. My book, Pilgrimage and Pilgrims in Late-Medieval Rome (Ashgate Press, forthcoming), traces the early history of the Roman Jubilee, a year-long celebration of penitential pilgrimage to the city's most ancient shrines. I'm particularly interested in fourteenth and fifteenth-century notions of charity, charitable institutions, and the understanding of spiritual community that bound the living and the dead.
Miscellaneous
Pilgrimage to Rome, penance and penitential devotion, charity, violence and religious justifications for war
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fintz Excellence in Teaching Award, Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University, March, 2007
- John Tracy Ellis Award - Honorable Mention, Catholic Historical Association, April, 1998
- Chester P. Middlesworth Award, Perkins Library, Duke University, May, 1989
- HISTORY 89FCS.01, Special topics in focus
Synopsis
- East duke 204d, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
- FOCUS 99FCS.05, Special topics in focus
Synopsis
- See instru, Tu 06:00 PM-07:30 PM
- HISTORY 105S.02, Gateway seminar
Synopsis
- Carr 137, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Recent Publications
Books in Progress
- Katharine Brophy Dubois, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Late Medieval Rome (Forthcoming).
- Katharine Brophy Dubois, "Charity, Sympathy, Penance and the Case of Margery Kempe" in Britt Mize ed., Sympathy in the Later Middle Ages (, Forthcoming).
- K.B. Dubois. "Encyclopedia entry: "Roman Jubilee"." Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. Ed. Thomas Izbiki Brill Academic Publishers, Forthcoming.